15 occurrences in 13 translations

'Wind' in the Bible

The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, and there is no authority over the day of death; there is no furlough in battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practice it to escape.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארבּה 
'arubbah 
Usage: 9

חלּון 
Challown 
Usage: 31

כּו 
Kav (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

לוּל 
Luwl 
Usage: 1

מוּסב 
Muwcab 
Usage: 1

צהר 
Tsohar 
Usage: 24

צפן צפון 
Tsaphown 
Usage: 153

קדם קדים 
Qadiym 
Usage: 69

רוּח 
Ruwach 
Usage: 378

רוּח 
Ruwach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

שׁמשׁ 
Shemesh 
Usage: 134

שׁקף 
Sheqeph 
Usage: 1

שׁקף 
Shaquph 
Usage: 2

תּמן תּימן 
Teyman 
Usage: 23

ἀνεμίζω 
Anemizo 
driven with the wind
Usage: 1

ἄνεμος 
Anemos 
Usage: 25

δέω 
Deo 
bind , tie , knit , be in bonds , wind
Usage: 32

θυρίς 
Thuris 
Usage: 2

νότος 
Notos 
Usage: 3

πνέω 
Pneo 
Usage: 3

πνοή 
Pnoe 
Usage: 2

συστέλλω 
Sustello 
wind up , short
Usage: 2

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